WHAT SPORTS TOURERS HAVE BEEN MISSING

The key ingredients of a sports tourer: comfort, range, sports biased handling plus bungee points, decent mirrors and a good headlight. Who knew that ‘supercharger’ was missing from the list? Only Kawasaki, who’s big news from the EICMA motorcycle show is a version of their 200bhp H2 equipped with centrestand, bungee hooks, cruise control, bigger tank, proper payload and engine tweaks. The autobahn beckons.